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Originally Posted by stekim";p="
No one should be held as an "enemy combatant". But my post never even used the term.
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No, your post used "you don't have to resort to third world tactics" -- what precisely are you referring to, if not his being held as an enemy combatant?
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Originally Posted by stekim";p="
What this case proved is that you can maintain the legal concepts you claim to cherish while still jailing terrorists.
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That was never an issue.
I mean, we could conduct an entire war through the legal process, trying and jailing the enemy as they gun down our citizens. We might take a single example to prove its possible, but as with Padilla, I doubt anyone would challenge that it's possible to jail enemies through the legal system.
The real question is what the *best* way to deal with combatants is -- and this case does very little to sway opinion in either direction.